And Elijah the prophet, the Tishbite, of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be these years dew nor rain, except by the word of my mouth.

Depart from here eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

And Elijah did according to the word of the Lord, and he sat by the Brook of Cherith before the Jordan.

And it came to pass after some time, that the brook was dried up, because there had been no rain upon the earth.

And Babylon, which is called glorious by the king of the Chaldeans, shall be as [when] God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

But wild beasts shall rest there; and the houses shall be filled with howling; and monsters shall rest there, and demons shall dance there,

And the Egyptians shall drink the water that is by the sea, but the river shall fail, and be dried up.

And all the green herbs round about the river, and everything sown by the side of the river, shall be blasted with the wind and dried up.

And shame shall come upon them that work fine flax, and them that make fine linen.

And her valleys shall be turned into pitch, and her land into sulphur; and her land shall be as pitch burning night and day;

and it shall never be quenched, and her smoke shall go up; it shall be made desolate throughout her generations,

I will make desolate mountains and hills, and will dry up all their grass; and I will make the rivers islands, and dry up the pools.

Who says to the deep, You shall be dried up, and I will dry up the rivers.

Why did I come, and there was no man? [Why] did I call, and there was none to hearken? Is not My hand strong to redeem? Or can I not deliver? Behold, by My rebuke I will dry up the sea, and make rivers a wilderness; and their fish shall be dried up because there is no water, and shall die of thirst.

And I will make their rivers desolate, and will destroy the land and its fulness by the hands of strangers: I the Lord have spoken.

And the cattle of the field have looked up to You; for the fountains of waters have been dried up, and fire has devoured the fair places of the wilderness.

He threatens the sea, and dries it up, and exhausts all the rivers: the land of Bashan and Carmel are brought low, and the flourishing [trees] of Lebanon have come to nought.

Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah; and Damascus [shall be] left as a heap of the threshing floor, and desolate forever: and the remnant of My people shall plunder them, and the remnant of My nations shall inherit them.

And He shall stretch forth His hand against the north and destroy the Assyrian, and make Nineveh a dry wilderness, even as a desert.

And Ahab said to Obadiah, Come, and let us go through the land, and to the fountains of water, and to the brooks, if by any means we may find grass, and may save the horses and mules, and so they will not perish.

And her nobles have sent their little ones to the water: they came to the wells, and found no water: and brought back their vessels empty.

Also I withheld from you the rain three months before the harvest, and I will rain upon one city, and on another city I will not rain; one part shall be rained upon, and the part on which I shall not rain shall be dried up.

And [the inhabitants of] two or three cities shall be gathered to one city to drink water, and they shall not be satisfied; yet you have not returned to Me, says the Lord.